ThumperPaul wrote on 05/31/24 at 18:38:58:I appreciate the offer, Dave!
Your kit looks awesome but probably a bit pricey.
I priced the kit as reasonably as I could......my time and experience is worth something. The chrome headlight bucket is $39.99 for me to purchase and is made for Harley light wiring. I have to remove the wiring harness, enlarge the back hole and buy a larger rubber bushing that will allow the Savage wiring to fit through the bushing. I then have to make the adapter, and it is labor intensive for me as I don't own a CNC machine. I have to get a big chunk of aluminum, cut it to rough shape on a bandsaw, mount it on a milling machine and make many cuts in several different mounting positions to get the shape right. Then I have to make 3 holes of the proper size in the proper position and buy the mounting hardware in stainless......and finally I have to clean the part up and put a clear powder coat finish on it. Then I have to carefully pack it up and drive to the Post Office. Shipping is around $20-$25 with insurance. I believe it takes me 4-5 hours of my time to make and ship these - when you deduct the cost of the headlight bucket, the aluminum chunk, the hardware and shipping - I am getting about $14 an hour for my time....and this isn't paying for any of the electricity it takes to run my shop lights, milling machine, oven for powder coating, etc. That is why I am no longer making these kits in quantity and will make 1 more kit with the parts I have in stock.
You can put an LED in the stock housing. The light output is better - but still not as good as a larger headlight housing.
LASFIT makes excellent lights with good light patterns at good prices. I have tried some of the generic LED lights from China that are cheap and listed all over eBay - unfortunately the light patterns can be horrible. Some throw the light too much to the side, some make bright and dark spots, some don't have good low beam cut off and throw light up into the oncoming drivers face.
Most aftermarket LED lights reduce radio reception on the FM band. LED's with the external driver tend to have less of a pulsing pattern when the engine is at idle - but the external driver does take up more room. I tried an early LED that was an "all inside" the headlight and it would fog up the interior of the reflector with a white film - I would hope that LASFIT made ones don't have this problem. LASFIT has excellent customer service and if it doesn't work they will take it back - I bought some 25W LED's from them and they did not draw enough power to keep the CANBUS system from triggering and error code on my F800 - I upgraded to a 35W and they worked fine. The only downside of buying from LASFIT is they are geared toward cars....you have to buy a pair!
https://www.lasfit.com/collections/h4
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